This grant will allow the American Educational Research Association (AERA) to further its work on conceptualizing what counts as high-quality public scholarship, and how to stimulate and evaluate it.
This grant will support the creation of a formal national network for existing and emerging research–practice partnerships in order to improve the connection between research, policy, and practice in education.
The Fellowship will deepen Julia Henly’s understanding of the forces that shape state child care policy and local program implementation for low-income children.
Evidence-based policy is expanding its reach, this time by showing new ways to influence behavior, improve the efficiency of government programs, and save money.
As the evidence movement matures, it is increasingly clear that we need to build on lessons not only from clear successes, but also from interventions that have not worked. Neither ...
By adopting and adapting the Oakland Athletics’ pioneering approach in baseball of making decisions informed by data—rather than hunches, biases, and “the way we’ve always done things”—we can get better returns on our federal education ...
We are at a crossroads in evidence-based policy. Federal evidence initiatives can be strengthened, but doing so requires the will and the patience to learn from the work thus far. ...
Instead of thinking of research and practice as a point A and point B journey, we might instead think of traveling around a neighborhood. The best neighborhoods have the infrastructure ...
The William T. Grant Foundation invests in high-quality research focused on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and improving the use of research evidence in decisions that affect young people in the United States.
